The Grisha Quotes

#1. On the day the Grisha Examiners came, the boy and the girl were perched in the window seat of a dusty upstairs bedroom, hoping to catch a glimpse of the mail coach. Instead, they saw a sleigh, a troika pulled by three black horses, pass through the white stone gates onto the estate.

Leigh Bardugo

#2. I've waged the war you forced me to, Alina," said the Darkling. "If you hadn't run from me, the Second Army would still be intact. All those Grisha would still be alive. Your tracker would be safe and happy with his regiment. When will it be enough? When will you let me stop?

Leigh Bardugo

#3. Three figures emerged in elegant fur hats and heavy wool kefta: one in crimson, one in darkest blue, and one in vibrant purple. "Grisha!" the girl whispered. "Quick!" said the boy. In

Leigh Bardugo

#4. Six of Crows
A smol precious deadly flower, two gaybies, a beautiful Grisha warrior, a grumpy convict, and their brilliant, fearless (and sometimes clueless) leader perform a heist of epic proportions.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse.

Leigh Bardugo

#6. I am ancient Alina.
I know things about power that you can barely guess

Leigh Bardugo

#7. You were meant to be my balance Aline.
You are the only person in the world who might rule with me, who might keep my powers in check

Leigh Bardugo

#8. Will you say it?

"Aleksander"

His grin faded and his grey eyes seemed to flicker.

"Again."

"Aleksander

Leigh Bardugo

#9. I spent years tryin' to shield her from her choices, didn't work. I'm not gonna let you do it and I'm not gonna teach you that someone's gonna shield you from shit. You gotta learn too. You make choices, they're yours and you gotta take responsibility for them.

Kristen Ashley

#10. One of the essential tenets of Grisha theory was "like calls to like," but Morozova seemed to believe that if the world could be broken down to the same small parts, each Grisha should be able to manipulate them.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.

Anton Chekhov

#12. You don't want to be doing this.
This is the only thing I want to be doing

Leigh Bardugo

#13. You will always be one of us.

Leigh Bardugo

#14. Now, what did "feel" really mean to a computer? Another very good question, but hardly one to be considered at that particular moment. Then,

Arthur C. Clarke

#15. Fight me as long as you're able.
You will find I have far more practice with eternity

Leigh Bardugo

#16. Tell him you see me when he takes you in his arms

Leigh Bardugo

#17. Genya would have to keep her face hidden, but she didn't seem to mind. She'd wrapped her shawl around her head and declared, 'I shall be a woman of mystery.' I reminded her not to be too intriguing.

Leigh Bardugo

#18. I know what you thought, what you always thought of me.
It's so much easier that way, isn't it?

Leigh Bardugo

#19. I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title

Leigh Bardugo

#20. Nonfiction is never going to die.

Tom Wolfe

#21. Why does the brave druskelle Matthias Helvar eat no meat? 'Tis a sad story indeed, my child. His teeth were winnowed away by a vexatious Grisha, and now he can eat only pudding.

Leigh Bardugo

#22. I want you to know my name.
The name I was given, not the title I took for myself.
Will you have it?

"Yes"

"Aleksander

Leigh Bardugo

#23. Gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse. Inej

Leigh Bardugo

#24. Whether I was a Saint or a queen or the most powerful Grisha who ever lived, I would always turn to him.

Leigh Bardugo

#25. So we need to not simply aim to do good in all areas of life, but be diligent in seeking to learn what actually will do good. We need to be smart about doing good. Good intentions are not enough. We need to do good that actually helps.

Matt Perman

#26. I don't care if you think I'm a Saint or a fool or the Darkling's whore. If you want to remain at the Little Palace you will follow me. And if you don't like it, you will be gone by tonight, or I will have you in chains. I am a solider. I am the Sun Summoners. And I'm the only chance you have.

Leigh Bardugo

#27. Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?
You called me and I answered

Leigh Bardugo

#28. Oh, I see. I'm the wicked Grisha seductress. I have beguiled you with my Grisha wiles!"
She poked him in the chest.
"Stop that."
"No. I'm beguiling you.

Leigh Bardugo

#29. Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#30. I will stip away all that you know, all that you love....
Until you have no shelter byt me

Leigh Bardugo

#31. I sought Morozova amplifiers for you Alina, so that we can rule as equals

Leigh Bardugo

#32. I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

Leigh Bardugo